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the un.ion of ODe man with one woman. Upon thw
SUppusitioD he argues, Rom. vii. 2. S. "Know ye
not, brethren, for 1 speak to them that know the law,
bow that the law hath dominion over a maD, as long
as he liveth ? For the woman which hath an husband,
is bound by the law to her husband so long
as he liveth; but if the husband be ~ead, she is
loosed from the law of her husband: so then, if
while her husband liveth she be married to another
mao, she shall be called an ~dulteress.':' When the
same Apostle permits marriage to his Corinthian
CO:lverts (which " for the present distress," he judges
to be inconvenient) he restrains the pennission to the
marriage of one husband with one wife: "It is
go:>d for a man not to touQ! a woman ; neverthele~,
to avoid fornication, let every man ba\;e his
own wife, and ·Iet every woman have her own husban